Thermodynamic Cycles: Carnot cycle, Carnot efficiency, thermal efficiency, concept of reversibility, actual cycles, Rankin cycle, the efficiency and the power of nuclear plants operating on an irreversible cycles, PWRs cycles, BWRs cycles, GCRs cycles, superheating and reheating cycles, regeneration, heat addition with variable temperature heat sources (steam generators, boilers, heat exchangers), working fluids, multi-fluid vapor cycles, economical impact, environmental impact.Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs): The primary cycle of PWRs, the secondary cycle of PWRs, the PWRs pressurize, steam generators ( U-tube, Once-through), chemical shim control, the radioactivity of the primary cycle system, coolant cleaning, heavy-water pressurized reactors , pressurized-water reactor power plants characteristics, the Shipping port nuclear power station, the Indian Point I Reactor Power Plant, the Point Peach Reactor Power Plant, the Pickering Heavy-Water Reactor Power Plant, the Fluidized-Bed concept, The Fluidized-Bed Reactor.Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs): Definition and cycle of BWRs, energy and mass balance of BWRs, the driving pressure in a boiling channel, the average density in boiling channel, the chimney effect, multichannel boiling core, the void coefficient in BWRs , ordinary-water reactors with highly enriched fuels, ordinary-water reactors with low enriched fuels, heavy-water reactors, stability of BWRs, boiling reactors power plants, thermodynamic cycle, radioactivity of steam systems of BWRs, direct cycle power plant, the experimental boiling water reactor (EBWR), the dual-cycle power plant, Dresden I Nuclear Power Plant, plant control using recirculation flow, Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Station, the pathfinder boiling reactor, A graphite-Water boiling superheat reactor, the variable moderator boiling reactor (VMR), BWRs turbines. Gas cooled Reactors (GCRs ): Definition of gas cooled reactor, thermodynamic cycles, gas coolant radioactivity, comparison of gas coolants on the basis of heat transfer and pumping power, thermodynamic comparison of gas coolants in direct-cycle applications, the actual cycle of GCR, design of GCR, other gaseous coolants comparisons, speed of sound, effect of fuel-element type on gas cooled reactors, economic impact, environmental impact, gas cooled reactor power plants, the analysis of the gas-steam system; the simple cycle, the analysis of gas-steam system: the dual pressure cycle, the UK gas cooled reactor program, the Hinckley Point A & B Stations, the high temperature gas cooled reactors (HTGR), Peach Bottom HTGR plant, the Fort Saint Vrain HTGR, pebble-bed reactors, the pebble-bed reactors steam power.
